8169881: Remove implicit Handle conversions oop->Handle
Summary: Pass THREAD to Handle as argument instead of implicit Thread::current() call.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

8151956: Support non-continuous CodeBlobs in HotSpot
Reviewed-by: iveresov, thartmann, simonis

8136421: JEP 243: Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface
Reviewed-by: ihse, alanb, roland, coleenp, iveresov, kvn, kbarrett

8087183: Fix call to inline function is_oop in header debugInfo.hpp.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kbarrett, dholmes

8035735: Metaspace::contains become extremely slow in some cases
Summary: Call is_metadata instead which does less work for the call in debugInfo.hpp which is called for all compiled code stack frames.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, dcubed

8029233: Update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 hotspot repository for 2013
Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

8016325: JVM hangs verifying system dictionary
Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

6964458: Reimplement class meta-data storage to use native memory
Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: jmasa <jon.masamitsu@oracle.com>, stefank <stefan.karlsson@oracle.com>, mgerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

6989984: Use standard include model for Hospot
Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

6941466: Oracle rebranding changes for Hotspot repositories
Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

6873116: Modify reexecute implementation to use pcDesc to record the reexecute bit
Summary: use PcDesc to keep record of the reexecute bit instead of using DebugInfoStreams
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

6833129: specjvm98 fails with NullPointerException in the compiler with -XX:DeoptimizeALot
Summary: developed a reexecute logic for the interpreter to reexecute the bytecode when deopt happens
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose, twisti

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